Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 34A > Chapter 2 > Part 2 - Securing Workers' Compensation Benefits for Employees

• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Award: means a final order of the commission as to the amount of compensation due:

  (i)	an injured employee; or

  (ii)

  a dependent of a deceased employee. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Board: means the Board of Water Resources created in Section 73-10-1. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Certified mail: means a method of mailing by any carrier that is accompanied by proof of delivery. See Utah Code 34A-1-102 City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Commissioner: means the commissioner of the commission appointed under Section 34A-1-201. See Utah Code 34A-1-102 Compensation: means the payments and benefits provided for in this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name. Council: means the Water Development Coordinating Council created by Sections 79-2-201 and 73-10c-3. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Decision: includes : (A)  an award or denial of a medical, disability, death, or other related benefit under this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act; or (B)  another adjudicative ruling in accordance with this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime. Director: means the director of the division, unless the context requires otherwise. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Disability: means an administrative determination that may result in an entitlement to compensation as a consequence of becoming medically impaired as to function. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Division: means the Division of Industrial Accidents. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings. Drinking Water Board: means the Drinking Water Board appointed according to Section 19-4-103. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Drinking water project: includes : (i)  collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under the control of the operator and used primarily with the system; (ii)  collection pretreatment or storage facilities used primarily in connection with the system but not under operator's control; and (iii)  studies, planning, education activities, and design work that will promote protecting the public from waterborne health risks. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Oath: includes "affirmation. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Oath: A promise to tell the truth. Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Order: means an action of the commission that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities, or other interests of one or more specific persons, but not a class of persons. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Political subdivision: means a county, city, town, improvement district, water conservancy district, special service district, drainage district, metropolitan water district, irrigation district, separate legal or administrative entity created under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, or any other entity constituting a political subdivision under the laws of this state. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Security fund: means the Water Development Security Fund created in Section 73-10c-5. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims. State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Wastewater project: means : (a)  a sewer, storm or sanitary sewage system, sewage treatment facility, lagoon, sewage collection facility and system, and related pipelines, and all similar systems, works, and facilities necessary or desirable to collect, hold, cleanse, or purify any sewage or other polluted waters of this state; and (b)  a study, pollution prevention activity, or pollution education activity that will protect the waters of this state. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Water Quality Board: means the Water Quality Board appointed according to Section 19-5-103. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Waters of this state: means any stream, lake, pond, marsh, watercourse, waterway, well, spring, irrigation system, drainage system, or other body or accumulation of water whether surface, underground, natural, artificial, public, private, or other water resource of the state which is contained within or flows in or through the state. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5